Been doing this for years on my N900, although I don't use Hulu or Netflix (one is region-locked and one uses DRM). I can hook up a BT keyboard and mouse and a DS3 controller. The big problem is that there isn't much processing power so you can't play HD movies.
So close yet so far. I'd buy a phone running Ubuntu but I have no use for Android. I'd have it run the same OS all the time, just using a mobile GUI (Unity or preferably Hildon) on the small screen and a traditional desktop GUI (I'm thinking XFCE) on the large screen.
If I can make a Droid 4 run Ubuntu I'll buy one ASAP. Once you can run a regular GNU/Linux distro you can customize it to do anything the hardware is capable of. That's the only problem with my N900, the hardware's old and out of date.
You invite rage with the word "ingratitude," it's outrageous to say such a thing. Apple has done FAR more harm than good to free software, it is responsible for the most damaging act in computing history, the popularization of curated computing.
Crazy animal rights group trying to stop people from hunting sky-rats on private property vs. dumb, childish hillbillies who shoot other people's property...tough one.
Fuck Apple and the horse they rode in on. To trade every OSS contribution they've ever made for their non-existence would be the deal of a lifetime and I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Sounds like Microsoft's EEE strategy, except instead of breaking compatibility by extending and removing "legacy" features they're just straight-up breaking compatibility as MS never had the balls to do.
True the overlap is not that big. Don't worry about the broke teenagers messing with it at home. Worry about he people who could afford your software, and those who could afford your software if it were cheaper. Remember, the development costs are sunk. Now you want to make as much back on it as possible, so price it to get the most money. 100 people buying it at $100 is the same as 1 person buying it at $10k. Think about it.
I think the GP meant custom-compiling the app for each customer to work with specific hardware dongles. That may well stop piracy 100% but it may kill your sales just as well.
True, it's a losing battle, especially if your software is expensive. Your options are to try to compete with piracy (DRM-free, cheap, offer support with purchase) or sell your soul to the BSA devil and have its minions do your bidding.
If you want to lay down a quick speedbump check out the copy protection on Serious Sam 3, to this day it's still not fully cracked AFAIK, people are using cheat codes and downloaded saves to work around it, but this might hurt your sales in the long run. The "compete with piracy" tactic is your best bet.
Even today's air combat looks pretty boring most of the time. A plane cruising along and occasionally firing a missile.
The History Channel, before it went to shit, had a feature speculating on combat between two suborbital fighters. It was pretty boring, they both cruised along out of sight of each other, one blew a hole in the other with a laser. Not even the excitement of a missile.
As technology improves air combat will become less of a spectacle. It's all been downhill since WW1.
Dead Space 2 realistically depicts sound in space. You can only hear things physically connected to your suit.
When I had to realign those solar arrays it took quite some time for me to figure out why the hell my character was suffering from spontaneous dismemberment, because there was no way for me to know a bladed alien projectile was rushing towards me unless I saw it coming. If there was an atmosphere I would have heard all kinds of noises.
Another step closer to being able to do pirate gene testing. Right now if you, say, wanted to have your DNA checked for a predisposition to breast cancer (oh and you have boobies in this hypothetical situation, follow along - j/k, men can get it too), the testing lab would have to pay exorbitant licensing fees to the company that has the patent on the fact that those genes are linked to breast cancer (I shit you not) or if caught running these tests, they would have their asses sued off.
But with this device (from what I understand - maybe it's not that capable yet), you could download a testing app from a file sharing site and do your own illegal test in the privacy of your own home.
One step closer to that. Oh, and also Gattaca, rated by NASA as the most realistic sci-fi movie:-(
TPB is even further detached from the material they link to than Google is at this point. Technically all search engines are more involved in piracy than TPB is now.
Because he's onto this new thing now? You probably haven't heard of it. He's seen 'em live and has their vinyls. The Pirate Bay's totally sold out and gone mainstream. *flips scarf*
Natural rights aren't legally enshrined, merely a philosophy. For people who aren't horribly broken inside, it's a difficult topic and takes some study to properly understand, but the way I'd sum it up is that natural rights are the inherent capabilities of animals. Hardcore libertarians and anarchists promote them as a reasonable set of rights a person should have, which I find disgusting.
What is it with some Americans that whenever the incantation "freedom" is used their fucking brains fall out?
Because to some Americans (the libertarians and archaeo-conservatives) their definition of "freedom" is much closer to what we call "anarchy" than the definition we use outside of the US. To them there is no word for the non-US definition of "freedom," the closest they have is "socialism" which has heavy negative connotations, it basically implies a USSR or 1984-style society.
They have a long list of tax shelters to choose from.
And while they may have the capital necessary to start a business, if they're hoarding all the profits beyond the minimum needed to keep their workers going I'm not even sure that's a net gain for society.
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keeping it from the community and only working it in with OEM's on future devices
FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU
I've similarly run a Debian chroot on my N900, the only difference in battery life will come from the heavier desktop apps you might be running.
Been doing this for years on my N900, although I don't use Hulu or Netflix (one is region-locked and one uses DRM). I can hook up a BT keyboard and mouse and a DS3 controller. The big problem is that there isn't much processing power so you can't play HD movies.
So close yet so far. I'd buy a phone running Ubuntu but I have no use for Android. I'd have it run the same OS all the time, just using a mobile GUI (Unity or preferably Hildon) on the small screen and a traditional desktop GUI (I'm thinking XFCE) on the large screen.
If I can make a Droid 4 run Ubuntu I'll buy one ASAP. Once you can run a regular GNU/Linux distro you can customize it to do anything the hardware is capable of. That's the only problem with my N900, the hardware's old and out of date.
You invite rage with the word "ingratitude," it's outrageous to say such a thing. Apple has done FAR more harm than good to free software, it is responsible for the most damaging act in computing history, the popularization of curated computing.
Crazy animal rights group trying to stop people from hunting sky-rats on private property vs. dumb, childish hillbillies who shoot other people's property...tough one.
I'm gonna guess eldavojohn based on the writing style, far on the "unrushed/low ADD factor" end of the spectrum.
Tell us apart you cannot.
Anonymous is way ahead of you, to anonymize their writing style they all speak in memes :-P
"Afro-men at the habbo pool"
"Angry dad, when we done goofed"
Later in time != forward
See: Win98 vs ME, PalmOS vs. iOS, Gnome2 vs Gnome3, Win95 desktop vs. Unity.
Fuck Apple and the horse they rode in on. To trade every OSS contribution they've ever made for their non-existence would be the deal of a lifetime and I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Sounds like Microsoft's EEE strategy, except instead of breaking compatibility by extending and removing "legacy" features they're just straight-up breaking compatibility as MS never had the balls to do.
That would be trivial for any cracker to detect and fix.
True the overlap is not that big. Don't worry about the broke teenagers messing with it at home. Worry about he people who could afford your software, and those who could afford your software if it were cheaper. Remember, the development costs are sunk. Now you want to make as much back on it as possible, so price it to get the most money. 100 people buying it at $100 is the same as 1 person buying it at $10k. Think about it.
Nothing about the rights themselves, of course we should all have them, but the idea that those should be the only rights society affords to a person.
I think the GP meant custom-compiling the app for each customer to work with specific hardware dongles. That may well stop piracy 100% but it may kill your sales just as well.
True, it's a losing battle, especially if your software is expensive. Your options are to try to compete with piracy (DRM-free, cheap, offer support with purchase) or sell your soul to the BSA devil and have its minions do your bidding.
If you want to lay down a quick speedbump check out the copy protection on Serious Sam 3, to this day it's still not fully cracked AFAIK, people are using cheat codes and downloaded saves to work around it, but this might hurt your sales in the long run. The "compete with piracy" tactic is your best bet.
Even today's air combat looks pretty boring most of the time. A plane cruising along and occasionally firing a missile.
The History Channel, before it went to shit, had a feature speculating on combat between two suborbital fighters. It was pretty boring, they both cruised along out of sight of each other, one blew a hole in the other with a laser. Not even the excitement of a missile.
As technology improves air combat will become less of a spectacle. It's all been downhill since WW1.
Dead Space 2 realistically depicts sound in space. You can only hear things physically connected to your suit.
When I had to realign those solar arrays it took quite some time for me to figure out why the hell my character was suffering from spontaneous dismemberment, because there was no way for me to know a bladed alien projectile was rushing towards me unless I saw it coming. If there was an atmosphere I would have heard all kinds of noises.
Another step closer to being able to do pirate gene testing. Right now if you, say, wanted to have your DNA checked for a predisposition to breast cancer (oh and you have boobies in this hypothetical situation, follow along - j/k, men can get it too), the testing lab would have to pay exorbitant licensing fees to the company that has the patent on the fact that those genes are linked to breast cancer (I shit you not) or if caught running these tests, they would have their asses sued off.
But with this device (from what I understand - maybe it's not that capable yet), you could download a testing app from a file sharing site and do your own illegal test in the privacy of your own home.
One step closer to that. Oh, and also Gattaca, rated by NASA as the most realistic sci-fi movie :-(
TPB is even further detached from the material they link to than Google is at this point. Technically all search engines are more involved in piracy than TPB is now.
Because he's onto this new thing now? You probably haven't heard of it. He's seen 'em live and has their vinyls. The Pirate Bay's totally sold out and gone mainstream. *flips scarf*
Natural rights aren't legally enshrined, merely a philosophy. For people who aren't horribly broken inside, it's a difficult topic and takes some study to properly understand, but the way I'd sum it up is that natural rights are the inherent capabilities of animals. Hardcore libertarians and anarchists promote them as a reasonable set of rights a person should have, which I find disgusting.
What is it with some Americans that whenever the incantation "freedom" is used their fucking brains fall out?
Because to some Americans (the libertarians and archaeo-conservatives) their definition of "freedom" is much closer to what we call "anarchy" than the definition we use outside of the US. To them there is no word for the non-US definition of "freedom," the closest they have is "socialism" which has heavy negative connotations, it basically implies a USSR or 1984-style society.
Why was this modded down?
They have a long list of tax shelters to choose from.
And while they may have the capital necessary to start a business, if they're hoarding all the profits beyond the minimum needed to keep their workers going I'm not even sure that's a net gain for society.